Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
— William Ellery Channing
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.
"I'm not going to do just nothing anymore.""Well, not so much. They don't let you."
I am really overwhelmed. Everywhere both in Internet and in other media, I have been asked for a message. I was thinking what message I can give to the people of the country at this juncture.